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Suse 9.0 Fried

After rebooting this morning, my Suse system suddenly became fried. Instead of booting into xwindows it booted to a different login menu then I&#039;d seen before(not the usual Suse login with the drop down windows manager). When I log in I&#039;m not given a choice to boot to KDE, Gnome, etc. It just boots to a weird black and white crossed screen. There&#039;s a Console window at the bottem that reads &quot;linux kernel: mtrr: 0xf...,00... overlaps existing 0xf...,0x10...
If I click on the desktop the window says TWM and gives me some options. It does have a terminal window option which gets me to an xterm. If I type startx I get an error that reads: &quot;Fatal server error: server is already active for display 0....Xlib: Connection to &quot;:0.0&quot; refused by server. Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. Xinit: Unable to connect to X server
xinit: NO such process (errno 3): Server error.
I booted into the Suse install disk and did a repair of installation. It reported an error in 2 spots and in the Resier system and said it repaired them, but same thing happened. Does anyone know what happened, or how to fix this? Thanks.

Re:Suse 9.0 Fried

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Well as I&#039;m sure you figured out that black and white crossed screen IS XWindows and it is using TWM as its window manager. I&#039;m not exactly sure of the start commands for kde and gnome, but I think kde&#039;s command is &#039;startkde&#039; and I have no idea for gnome. Try those in xterm window and see what happens, probably more errors but its worth a shot. Maybe your XFree86.config file became corrupt somehow.

Re:Suse 9.0 Fried

Sounds like the gdm sessions file b0rked itself. You might jump into GNOME (gnome-session is the startup executable), and check the login options. If the sessions are missing, there&#039;s your problem.

Am I wrong here or is this indicating a problem with my display config? I was able to load YAST from the bash prompt and it showed the correct videocard and monitor, but it showed 3d acceleration as being on(which I didn&#039;t set it as). I tried to change it, but the system crashed when do that. I keep running the repair option from the install disk, and it keeps reporting an error, that it says it repairs, but returns every time. Is there anything I can do, or do I need to just reinstall?

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Re:Suse 9.0 Fried

No error. I think I&#039;ve traced the problem back to an online update. I&#039;m just not sure which one. I&#039;ve reinstalled 2 different times now. Each time it works fine, then I run the live update, reboot and it fries.